Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mumford is a scholar in the old-style as well--not the product of assembly line education, but a thinker without titles, whose formal education was night school at the City College of New York. Mumford calls himself a writer, but it's probably for lack of a better word. "The orthodox name is philosopher," he says, "but a philosopher today is a specialist. I loathe the very notion of expert...
...this latest volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Helen Chasin demonstrates that she is a poet not only of promise but of some achievement. She can tease the word plum until the reader can almost taste it. Witnessing Harvard Square's hippies, she can gently puncture their posturings. Her passion is often tempered with irony, particularly in speaking about love...
...life, back to a happy marriage, inexorable incarceration in the Waldport Camp [a conscientious objector's prison], painful divorce, hopeful remarriage, and abrupt, disturbing separation-back to my love of nature and of woman, to a poetry of physical celebration and tortured sensuality; back, in a word to the 'residual years...
...other times, Duncan escapes from the esoteric game playing of his cross-referencing of word and image, forgets to be the Delphic oracle, and finds a poem that reaches outside of itself to the real world of experience. In "My Mother Would Be a Falconress," the relationship between mother and child is placed on a chilling medieval level that includes a touch of Freudian contest...
Crumb best expresses his joy in "Stoned." The strip is a series of short phrases, each accompanied by a cartoon, each representing some part of the business of being alive, and each ending with the word "stoned." Drugs play no part in Crumb's version of stoned, though; the variety of events and emotions found in life is the stoning agent here...